The benefits of gardening for older adults are incredible! I was surprised to learn that it may even reduce the risk of dementia.

I AM the senior that needs help making my garden more maintenance free. Good suggestions but lots of work. I did take out the hedge so I can sit and admire my neighbor's garden instead.

I make raised gardens for mom. As well, just pile some bricks then put boards on top of them. Potted plants are put on the boards so now she can spend two hours every morning puttering around. She is happy as a lark.

Lovely article! I learn everything I know about gardening from my mom! From her, I also learn about the led grow lights which help to grow healthier plants - growace.com/grow-light/led-grow-lights.html. I`m very happy with the results, using them!

This is so important in a residential program! They can see growth and change week to week when there is a garden or raised beds. Getting their hands dirty connects them to life!

Lovely! I learned gardening from my parents and grandparents. I think every gardeners had a teacher, right?

With the baby boomers hitting their 60's, I predict a movement away from big gardens towards lots of containers, raised garden beds and smaller more intimate spaces. And lots of helper roles for grandkids!

This is a great article because it not only suggests what to do but gives specific suggestions about how to do it.

That's a wonderful article and in my case it's absolutely true. Ever since my Parents, my older brother and myself moved into this house (50 years this past May) my mother always had her vegetable garden. She wasn't a flower person or really even a garden person. But she was and still is a Vegetable Garden person. GgAnd she loved every moment of it. I always helped her but over the years I did more of the work and she did more of the managing. But that was fine with both of us because we were sharing this experience together and talking and laughing. We had a Vegetable Garden until about 10 years ago when her eyesight got bad. Since then she would occasionally ask me if I wanted to plant some tomato plants but I just wasn't ready to do it without her, until this year. My husband and I decided to surprise my mother by planting just a few tomato plants. Well he did the work and I supervised. When we brought my mom outside to show her what we had done for her, she started to cry. She was so happy. Since then we bring her outside about every other day or so and she sits under a tree, just looking around and watching how "her" tomato plants are doing.